My Children Quotes

When I was married, I didn't work. When I had my children, I didn't work. But before that, I'd work for Diana Vreeland at 'Harper's Bazaar.'

Our children are the gift we give the world we'll never see.

We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children’s children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

The No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is 'How do I leave my children better off than myself?

The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.

We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.

Our children are not going to be just "our children"

Yet, instead of loving our children more, we install metal detectors in our schools.

I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.

It's a war to control our children. State control through drugs, just as practiced in the Soviet Union. With Hillary [Clinton] and Tipper [Gore] leading the charge!

Every elected official on this planet should understand - don't play with our children, don't do it.

As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.

My children know I would never call anyone to give my son or daughter a break.

If I found myself married with children and had tons of puppies and a fun place to live, I imagine I'd be happier, but I kind of like being a little bit isolated and lonely.

I think that being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.

Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really loved their homes.

If a child is not listening, don't despair. Time and truth are on your side. At the right moment, your words will return as if from heaven itself. Your testimony will never leave your children.

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.

I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money.

In my own life I like to be poised and have a positive outlook on life, and I'm leading by example to my children and people around me.

Debt is not intrinsically bad. But I make clear to my children that they should only borrow as much as they will be able to pay back.

Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children.

We are the buffoons of our children.

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.

There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

It can be consoling to think your children are in heaven. You have got to understand that that doesn't make it true. Many people cannot understand that distinction.

I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books.

God has chosen this time and this place so we can save our country and save our courts for our children

While raising my children, I would like to take on other challenges.

I feel honor-bound to have a private relationship with my children. And that's not a judgment about anybody else and what they choose. And that's the beauty of living in a democracy, right?

I owe it to my children to secure their future.

I don't think about success to be famous, because I've done that at the highest level, but it's all about my children.

My life revolves around my child's routine.

The world that our children will inherit is going to look substantially different, very quickly, than the world we have today. It's alarming.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point.

It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.

The Creator favors the man who LOVES over the man who HATES. If you teach hatred to your children, one day your child will have that hatred reflected back onto them...and onto YOU.

My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.

We must keep ourselves busy with finding ways to generate wealth for generations to come and work to pass down things to our children for them to pass down to their children.

I started a list of things I want to teach my children, and that list is eight points long. The first one is, do what you love.

I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

Could it be we stifle our children's genius by languaging them too quickly away from their hearts and into the straight and narrow confines of linear thinking?

The best lesson we can teach our children is to have fun. It's infectious, it's contagious.